- past tense form of institutionalize.
- past participle of institutionalize.
institutionalized
Example Sentences
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The words are literally institutionalized, engraved on a bell at the UC Santa Barbara campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
America dramatized one part of the British inheritance; Canada institutionalized another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Resurrectionists” – body snatchers – exhumed the recently buried, disproportionately targeting the poor, the institutionalized and those without family protection or the financial means to guard graves.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026
“It might actually be worse because there’s nothing institutionalized about any of this.”
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
He was still involved with the legal system and was always under the threat of being institutionalized again if somebody bothered to check on him.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
